Film4 comes to freeview
 

From: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds28928.html

From July Film4 will launch on freeview and go FTA on Sky. I'd imagine it'll also go into the base pack on Ntl/Telewest.

:tu: to this one. I've always found that Film4 shows much better films than the Sky movie channels.

The only problem is the ad-breaks that'll be introduced but I suppose you can't have everything.

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Great news :tu:

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Superb news!

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i also heard theyre doing a number reshuffle next week and film four will be epg no 334 :)

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Good news indeed:D

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Brilliant news... as said before, some of the best films are shown on FilmFour.

Thnx for the heads up. :)

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I heard it wasn't till about June or July. is that right.

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*cough*

;)

Yep a few months to wait but I reckon it'll be well worth it.

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I always thought it was a load of rubish, not many films I ever liked were shown on it and I guess i'm not the only one that thinks so. Otherwise they would not be going "freeview" guess they ain't making any money through subscriptions!:dozey:

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IIRC, it's because Channel 4 were criticised by the Government for not fulfulling their public service remit .

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We subscribed to F4 for a while, until we realised that £5 a month for a huge pile of unwatchable, pretentious twaddle was not good value. Even Mrs T was disappointed, and she did Film Studies at uni so that sort of film should have been right up her street.

I wonder how the economics of that works out for Channel 4 - £5 for (IIRC) three channels, to completely free? Must be costing them a bit. Unless no-one is subscribing to it anyway, in which case it's probably a good idea. :erm: :disturbd:

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300,000 or so subscribers right now at £7.00 a pop comes out at just over 2mil a month in revenue (I'm unsure how much gets kicked back to Sky, Ntl etc)

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Interesting ... I wonder whether their experience of putting e4 on Freeview has taught them they can make up the shortfall with improved ad revenues?

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oooooopssssssssssssss.

Sorry must be my age that is telling.

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yaay bring it on :)